WEBVTT - Stretch The Truth (Tim Somers) 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:02.720 Before we get to the message, let me know right 0:00:02.759 --> 0:00:06.560 now where are you watching from, where you're joining from 0:00:06.640 --> 0:00:10.040 our EPAM around the world. Welcome. I'm excited to bring 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:15.760 God's word to you today. Also April eighteenth through twenty seven, 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:21.439 Elevationnights dot Com Our Elevation Nights Spring Tour. If me Holly, 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:25.680 Elevation Worship, a Word from God, the Spirit of God, 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:29.240 your favorite songs. All right, here's where we're coming. Austin, Texas, 0:00:29.280 --> 0:00:37.000 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Kansas City, Missouri. I'm there, Denver, Colorado. 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:40.440 That altitude got me. Saint Louis, Missouri, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:45.239 and Toronto, Ontario. We will see you. Elevationnights dot Com. 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:47.599 Get your tickets right now. Let me know where you're 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:49.599 joining us from. I want to see it in the comments. 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:53.840 Let's go to the word of God. I love the 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:56.080 flow that our pastors are in right now. There's so 0:00:56.240 --> 0:01:01.279 much more to the story. And and obviously you can 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:04.840 tell I am not Pastor Steven, just in case you 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:09.320 didn't know, I'm not him. What you got to understand 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:11.840 about our pastor is you know that there are only 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:13.880 two people in this world that were ever given the 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:19.360 vision of this church, the weight of this church, the 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:25.080 weight of this vision, and I will I'd be remiss 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:27.280 to think that I would ever understand what that means 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:31.760 at all. And so the opportunity to be able to 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:34.920 get on this stage and talk for the next two 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:39.960 and a half hours, it's not that oh I thought 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:44.959 that was a deal, okay, thirty nine minutes. Thirty nine minutes. Man, 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:50.800 I don't take it lightly. And we have some incredible pastors. 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:54.400 I don't just say that because I work for him. 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:56.640 I want you to know that that man is a 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:59.440 hero of my life and a hero of the faith, 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:02.559 and he's the real deal. He really is the real deal, 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:06.960 and the little that I do get to know about him, 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:11.320 he is the real deal. And it's incredible. We need 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:15.160 people like that. We need people like that, Like, here's 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:17.400 the faith that we can actually look to. You know 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:21.919 what I'm saying. Top shelf leaders, right, top shelf leaders 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:25.880 the ones that who last, who go the whole way right, 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:28.080 who don't just like call it quits twenty years in, 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:31.679 but who keeps going. And so I'm so grateful for 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:37.160 this house and the pastors of this house, and I 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:40.079 really believe that this series is one of the series 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:43.720 that will really never forget. But I'm gonna be honest 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:47.160 with you. Three weeks in, you know, he's in the 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:50.120 Book of Joshua. And I told chunks about a month ago, 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:51.359 I said, yeah, I think I want to be in 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:55.440 Joshua with them. And after about those three weeks he preached, 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:58.639 I said, Okay, he's getting every nook and cranny of Joshua. 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:02.240 I'm gonna stay away from it, but I'm must stay 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:05.760 in the same vein. There's so much more to this story. 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:07.960 So here's what I want you to do. How many 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:09.679 of you brought your bibles? You believe in the Word 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:12.440 of God. Anybody believe in the Word of God. He 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:16.080 brought your bibles with you. Okay. No, you must be 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:18.160 familiar with this place because we put it on the 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:22.120 screens for you. No worries. Go to Second King's chapter 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:35.000 four Sega King's chapter four, verse eight. Second King's Chapter four, 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:36.880 verse eight. I'm gonna give you a second you found it. 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:45.320 If you need time, say hold up, okay, hurry up. Okay, 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:50.320 this is what it says. Sega Kings Chapter four, verse 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:55.880 eight says one day, everyone say one day. Elisha passed 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:59.240 through Shunam, a leading lady of the town talked him 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:03.520 into stopping for a meal, and then it became his 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:07.360 custom whenever he passed through he stopped by for a meal. 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:10.720 I'm certain, said the woman. Said the woman to her 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:14.400 husband that this man who stops by with us all 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:18.680 the time, as a holy man of God, why don't 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:21.200 we add a small room upstairs, furnish it with the 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:23.159 bed and the desk, a chair and a lamb, so 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:24.800 that when he comes by he can stay with us. 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:29.640 This is the first airbnb of the Bible, okay. And 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:32.120 so what happened at the next time Elisha came by. 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:34.520 He went to the room, laid down for a nap, 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:37.080 and then he said to his servant Gehese, tell that 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:39.240 shit to white woman. I want to see her. He 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:42.239 called her, and she came to him through Gehesei. Elisha said, 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:45.400 you've gone far beyond the call of duty and taken 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:48.360 care of us. What can we do for you? Do 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:50.039 you have a request we can bring to the king 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:53.560 or to the command of the army. And she replied, no, 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:59.120 I'm good. I don't need anything. I'm secure, satisfied in 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:02.240 my family. Elisha conferred with gaze, and there's got to 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:04.280 be something we can do for her. But what gayes 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:07.280 I said, Well, look, she ain't got no children, and 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:11.520 her husband's an old man. Don't look to your left, 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:14.800 don't look to you right. Okay, it might be old. 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:19.040 It's all right. Call her in, said Elisha. He called her, 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:21.479 and she stood at the open door, and Elisha said 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:25.560 to her, this time next year, you're gonna be nursing 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:30.559 an infant son. Oh my master, holy man, she said, 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:34.040 don't play games with me, teasing me with such fantasies. 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:37.719 And the woman conceived a year later, just as Elisha 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:42.320 had said, she had a son. The child grew up. 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:44.800 One day he went to his father, just like a 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:51.480 teenager working with the harvest hands, complaining, my head, my head. 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:53.279 You see how there were no laughs. He's because y'all 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:59.600 ain't y'all ain't parents the teenagers. Yet, my head, my head, 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:03.520 His father ordered. A servant did just what a wise 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:06.840 man would do, he said, take him to his mother. 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:12.240 The servant took him in his arms and carried him 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:15.680 to his mother. He laid on her lap until noon 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:17.359 and died, and she took him up, laid him on 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:19.679 the bed the Man of God shut him in alone 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:23.479 and left. She then called to her husband said, get 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:25.159 me a servant and a donkey so I can go 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:26.920 to the Holy Man. I'll be back as soon as 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:29.000 I can. He's like, yo, why today, this ain't a 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:32.880 holy day, this ain't new moon, this ain't Sabbath. She said, 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:36.360 don't ask questions, man, I need to go right now, 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:41.000 trust me. She went ahead, saddled the donkey, ordering her 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:43.560 servant take the lead and go as fast as you can. 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:47.240 I'll tell you if you're going too fast. And so 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:49.120 off she went, and she came to the Holy Man 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:51.520 in Mount Carmel, and the Holy Man, spotting her while 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:53.839 she was still a long way off, said to a servant, 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:55.680 ga haes I, look out there. Why is the shoon 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:58.599 of my woman? Quickly now ask her? Is something wrong? 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:02.680 Is she all right? Okay it sir child? All right? 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:15.960 And she said everything's fine. When she reached the Holy 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:17.840 Man at the mouth, she threw herself at the feet 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:19.960 and held tightly to him and gaze. I came up 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:22.000 to pull her away, but the Holy Man said leave 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:25.840 her alone. Can't you see she's upset? God hasn't let 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:27.800 me in on Why I'm completely in the dark. And 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:30.440 then she spoke up. Did I ask for a sunmaster, 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:33.280 didn't I tell you? Don't tease me with false hope. 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:37.040 Let's go down to verse thirty two. Elisha entered the 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:41.880 house and found the boy stretched out on the bed dead. 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:45.720 He went into the room and locked the door, just 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:49.400 the two of them in the room and prayed to God. 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:51.320 He then got into the bed with the boy and 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:56.440 covered him with his body. Mouthed on mouth, eyes on eyes, 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:02.160 hands on hands. Everyone say mouth on mouth, eyes on eyes, 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:06.640 hands on hands. You're gonna need that for later. As 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:08.720 he was stretched out over him like that, the boy's 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:10.960 body became warm, and Elisa got up and paced back 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:13.280 and forth in the room. Then he went back and 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:16.920 stretched himself upon the boy again. The boy started sneezing. 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:19.960 He called Gehesei and said, get the shoe to white 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:22.200 woman in here. He called her, and she came in, 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:27.600 and Elisha said, embrace your son. She fell at Alicia's feet, 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:31.080 face to the ground. In reverend All. She embraced her 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:33.280 son and went out with him. I know that's a 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:35.920 long passage, but you needed that whole story because I 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:40.120 wanted to get to verse twenty six. Quickly, now ask 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:43.720 her is something wrong? Are you all right? It's your 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:51.480 husband okay? Is your child okay? And she said everything's fine. 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:59.040 I want to title my message today stretch the truth. Now. 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:02.080 Some of y'all, Oh, my mama told me different. Boy. 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:06.000 I know your mama be saying, do not, do not, 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:11.079 do not, stretch the truth. Look at you, Daven, say 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:14.040 you know what? Come on, look at you, Dave, say 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:21.400 you know what. Maybe mama was wrong. Some of y'all 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:25.640 got nervous when you said that maybe mama was wrong. 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:29.120 LEAs y'all. The name is say stretch the truth. Stretch 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:30.600 the truth. You can find your way to you see. 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:38.360 Think it seem stretch the truth? You know. I think 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:42.680 the world has given this phrase and negative connotations, Stretch 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:47.160 the truth. How many of you got teenagers? Man? You 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:50.280 know I come up on this. I appreciate here four 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:52.640 times on a Sunday. This is crazy my full time. 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:56.319 And each time I realized I've always talked about Genesis, 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:58.560 and so I say, you know what, I ain't doing 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:02.360 it this time. I'm gonna talk about my old older son, Brody. 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:06.000 I got a sixteen year old and and this this 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:09.120 man wild because six weeks ago, I'm not gonna lie 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:11.200 to you. This is this is I'm not stressing the 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:15.560 truth at all here, Okay, this is serious. Uh six 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:18.760 weeks ago, my son, my son, he's really good at 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:21.240 at basketball, he really is. He's got the hight, he's 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:23.320 got a frame that's way different than mine. Like he 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:27.800 can take a hit I can't. And he eats a lot, okay, 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:30.719 And he's really good at at basketball. And so we 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:32.840 got him into AAU and you know, we're like those 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:35.400 we're like like church is the first priority, but you 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:37.160 can still play sports, you know, but we're not like 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:39.840 a two sport family. That's too much. Okay, you know, 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:42.040 you do you, but we're gonna do us, okay. And 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:44.040 so two sports like yeah, you know, you got to pick. 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:47.280 And so he's always been like like good at basketball, 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:48.679 and so we're like, yeah, let's do that. So we 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:51.720 got him into AAU. Well this year, at the end 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:54.280 of February tryouts to coming up for AU. You know, 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:56.520 he made it last year, so we're excited, we're pumped, 0:10:56.600 --> 0:11:02.760 you know, And about four weeks for tryouts, my son 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:04.400 comes to me. He's like, hey, Dad, I want to 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:07.719 get in shape. I'm like, you already are, but okay, 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:10.120 so yeah, I want to. I want to get in shape, 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:12.200 want to stay in shape. I want to just you know, 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:16.880 do some of the workouts with the football team. And 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:20.920 I was like, okay, cool, you know, just like a father, 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:23.880 don't ask any more questions, right, you know. And so 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:27.080 I was like, yeah, you want to, that's that's cool. 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:29.199 See yeah, you know, everyone's invited to come and work 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:31.680 out with the football team. And I was like, okay, 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:34.840 sounds good, feel free to do it. So he does it, 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:39.840 and it happens every day after school. Well two weeks 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:42.440 go by and I'm heading to Ohio and like, son, 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:44.720 you're coming with me to Ohio. You're gonna miss school 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:51.400 on Thursday. He's like what. And I was like, now 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:53.880 that's weird. Sixteen year old. Yeah, I'm saying, hey, I'm 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:55.800 taking you out of school. You know, we're gonna we're 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:58.040 gonna play a little hooky, you know, like let's go, 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:01.280 We're going to Ohio. I thought he would be excited, 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:03.319 you know, and not like there's anything in Ohio, but 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:05.000 who cares. You know, it is what it is. It's 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:08.960 still a trip, Okay, I know, it's not Barbados, but 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:15.199 still it's Ohio okay. And he's like with that, I 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:19.199 I can't miss, I can't, I can't miss. I said, 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:21.040 why you can't miss? What was he He's like, I got, 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:30.280 I got, I got practice. I said, hold up, practice? 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:36.280 What do you mean practice? Say? Yeah, yeah, you know, 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:38.400 like the thing I'm telling you about, like with football, 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:41.120 you know, like I got practice. I said no, no no, no, 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:42.600 no no no no no no, no, no no no no. 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:45.959 What you told me was you were going to work 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:51.320 out with the football team. Now you're saying it's practice. 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:54.920 He said, yea, yeah yeah. And if I miss, I 0:12:54.960 --> 0:13:04.960 can't be on the team. I said team, what team? 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:08.160 What you mean? Are you on the football team? And 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:13.840 he's like, I think so, I think I am, dad, 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:16.120 I think I am. I said, they don't have tryouts. 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:20.480 He's like no, I said, just like this generation, I 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:22.080 ain't even got to try out. You know, that's a 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:27.559 whole other thing. But I said, wait, you really are 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:31.240 on the team. He said, yeah, I am. I'm on 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:33.600 the team. And now he starts like getting confident. He's 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:35.559 like he's gonna want a man out. He's like, I'm grown, man, 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:38.120 I'm sixteen here we go. He's like, yeah, I'm on 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:41.120 the team. I said, see, you're not doing basketball. He's like, nah, 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:44.360 I'm not. I'm not doing basketball. I said, when were 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:48.360 you going to let me in on that decision. He's like, well, 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:51.240 I thought I did when I said I was gonna 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:54.000 play football. I said, you didn't say you were going 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:56.360 to play football. I said, in that a little bit 0:13:56.400 --> 0:14:05.120 of a stretch, my guy. So apparently not with a 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:10.480 football family. I don't really care for it, but you 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:19.960 know is what it is. I'm excited. No, literally, my 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:22.760 heart sunk. I'm like, man, I remember when I played football. 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:24.840 The first time I got hit. I said, never again. 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:27.800 I said, I had seven people blocking from me and 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:31.440 I got hit. Heck No said all right, man, good luck. 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:33.680 How fun. I love you, believe in you, proud of you. 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:36.920 But I say, man, that's a little bit of a 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:40.080 stretch here. Once they stretch, that's a little bit of 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:42.880 a stretch. And I want you to go with me here, 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:46.760 because if I'm honest with you, I like to think 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:50.160 that there is a lot of power in stretching the 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:55.760 truth over your entire life, and not just parts of 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:57.600 your life. In fact, the way that I would like 0:14:57.680 --> 0:14:59.840 to say it is that if you are not stretching 0:14:59.880 --> 0:15:03.480 the truth over your entire life, you might be living 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:07.560 a lie. You might be living a lie. So I 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:10.480 want to talk about stretching real quick. How many of 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:12.520 you have ever felt like you have been in a 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:15.240 season of stretching? Anyone ever been there? Maybe you're in 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:17.400 there right now, right now. Here's what you gotta understand 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:21.160 that I'm not talking about just like negative stretching. Okay, like, 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:24.200 oh my gosh, it's just like it's crazy, the bills 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:26.680 are just piling up. There is that kind of stretching, right, 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:29.280 But there's also that positive stretching, you know what I'm saying, Like, 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:34.360 some of y'all are being stretched into success some of you, 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:38.240 some of you this year alone, you're being stretched into 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:41.360 your destiny. For some of you, you're like, you know what, 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:43.240 I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:46.160 do it. God's been telling me. God's been telling me 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:48.560 to quit my job and start this, start this business. 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:54.320 And you're being stretched right into your full purpose. Right. 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:58.360 And so when I talk about stretching, don't just negate 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:03.120 that to being just negative thing, right, But how many 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:05.760 of you know that that that the stretching can be 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:11.200 a blessing, the stretching can also be a burden. Right, 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:13.040 this is this is, this is a real thing. The 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:14.960 phrase that I love to say all the time is 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:22.400 that oftentimes the most anointed people are the most attacked people. Right, 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:25.120 this is this is If you've lived any kind of life, 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:28.360 you understand that this is very, very true, because you 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:31.960 know something's working when you got some tension. Right. How 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:33.600 many of you ever worked out before? I'm gonna put 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:38.240 my hands down. You ever done this? I own it. 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:40.680 I'm okay, I know, I know I need to work out. 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:42.600 Passing Key's telling us all this stuff you need. You've 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:44.560 got to be disciplined. I'm like mm hmm, I'm gonna 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:46.760 do it, and I'm gonna do it one of these days. Right. 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:50.400 But when you work out, when you work out, what's 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:54.440 coming your way tension? Right, Like we all want to 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:57.480 be ripped. Like y'all thinking about it right now? It's smart. 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:02.120 You're like spring breaks coming up and the summer's happening. 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:03.960 Am I going to go to the pool with my 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:07.359 shirt on or with my shirt off? Right? I'm like okay, 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:24.200 as a man, obviously, so right, this is this is uh, 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:27.240 like we all want to be ripped, but do we 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:33.679 want the resistance? Right? Like I've always thought like, man, people, 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:36.399 let me be honest with you. Like you can't spell 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:41.560 diet without die. That's why I don't do it. I 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:45.800 don't want to live like you want to diet. No, 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:51.720 I don't want to die? Oh hell so gross? Why 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:57.040 do I want to eat that? Talking? No? Absolutely not right? Okay, 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:01.560 this this y'all are felt this before. I just need 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:04.040 a little counseling session, you know. I'm just this is 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:06.840 helpful for me, right, Like, like we want to be 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:09.080 rip we don't want the resistance, and then we know 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:11.679 like ah, tensions like tensions like oh do I want that? 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:13.560 Do I not want that? Like you got to understand 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:15.600 you you're gonna need that. Like people be asking for 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:19.639 miracles all the time, but they don't want problems. Like 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:22.600 if you ask for a miracle, then you're gonna have 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:27.160 some issues, right right, Like like the bigger the problem, 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:31.280 the bigger the opportunity for a miracle. Am I right? 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:34.720 Pastor talked about this idea where you have a problem, 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:37.080 Heaven has a plan. Let me tell you something. Everybody 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:41.800 wants to plan, but nobody wants the problems. Right. This 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:45.040 is very very interesting because we got to stop asking 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:50.679 for miracles if we don't want some issues. Okay, And 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:53.200 when you talk about miracles, like, you got to understand 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:58.800 the greatest miracle like ever is resurrection. Did you notice 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:02.480 this in the passage? Right, Like you can't have resurrection 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:13.480 without ah ah, So do you want resurrection? Ah? Right, 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:18.040 there's this stretching that begins to happen. Now let's talk 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:22.159 about the truth. Okay, Resurrection is in the forefront of 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:26.080 this text. Right, Elcia is the prophet, Right, God uses 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:28.720 them powerfully to bring this boy back from the dead. 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:30.879 This is pretty amazing, Okay. In fact, this is the 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:34.840 first resurrection. Okay, there's but you gotta understand there's lots 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:37.600 of miracles in the Bible, right, Like if you hopefully 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:40.320 you've read the Bible a little bit and you you 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:43.000 quickly realize that there are a lot of miracles. Right. 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:48.159 Blind people can see death, people can hear lame people 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:54.840 can walk. But resurrection, that's at the top of the list. Right. 0:19:54.920 --> 0:19:57.800 None of these are like resurrection, Right, there's a whole 0:19:57.840 --> 0:20:04.480 other level. Why because it's final like death has a finality. 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:08.920 You know what I'm saying, like like you can't undo death, 0:20:09.920 --> 0:20:12.560 you know, like like like let me say like this, 0:20:12.640 --> 0:20:14.919 like you like have you ever tried to unbake a 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:21.960 burnt brownie? You ever try? Mean? Neither you ever like 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:26.320 trying to unstub your toe, like once you stubbed that thing, 0:20:28.040 --> 0:20:31.200 you're just holding your toe like, oh my gosh, right, 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:37.680 you ever tried that? Like unrun a red light? Yeah, 0:20:37.720 --> 0:20:40.280 the officer. Let me just uh, let me just take 0:20:40.280 --> 0:20:44.760 a loop back around one more time. Please. This is 0:20:44.760 --> 0:20:47.240 what death is. This final. Ivery want to stay final. 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:55.080 You've got the resurrection power in Elisha. And this is 0:20:55.240 --> 0:20:59.520 Elijah's ride or die with you heart and soul BFF 0:20:59.720 --> 0:21:02.640 for ever. And what you got to understand is Elisha 0:21:02.920 --> 0:21:07.960 was a farmer. He gets the call to roll with Elijah, 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:11.400 leaves his equipment, burns it right. And what you got 0:21:11.400 --> 0:21:16.119 to understand about Elisha is that Elisha is not easily offended. 0:21:20.440 --> 0:21:25.000 That's a word for someone in this room. Elisha is 0:21:25.040 --> 0:21:34.360 not easily offended. Right, Elisha has a fortitude. Okay, Elisha 0:21:34.440 --> 0:21:36.199 is the guy that you could not get rid of 0:21:36.840 --> 0:21:39.760 all right, Elisha was the one that stuck it out 0:21:39.800 --> 0:21:43.720 through absolutely everything. He had a work ethic that just 0:21:43.840 --> 0:21:47.320 topped everyone's okay, and he was with Elijah all the 0:21:47.320 --> 0:21:49.840 way up until Elijah was taken up to heaven. And 0:21:49.880 --> 0:21:51.760 then he prayed this prayer that we all are very 0:21:51.800 --> 0:21:55.959 familiar with, where he's saying, give me a double portion, 0:21:57.119 --> 0:22:00.399 who give me a double portion of what Elijah and 0:22:00.480 --> 0:22:06.440 Elisha got it? Right now, Elisha Elishah was the first 0:22:06.440 --> 0:22:08.720 one to do a resurrection. Well, then you got Elisha 0:22:09.160 --> 0:22:12.119 who resurrects this little boy that we just read in 0:22:12.160 --> 0:22:16.040 this passage. Okay, pretty impressive, but remember he gets a 0:22:16.080 --> 0:22:22.639 double portion. Okay. So many years go by and Elisha dies, 0:22:23.720 --> 0:22:28.840 is put into a tomb, okay, and there's a man 0:22:29.080 --> 0:22:33.520 that's thrown into that tomb. And when that man hit 0:22:34.359 --> 0:22:41.040 the grave, he came back to life. You know, your 0:22:41.080 --> 0:22:45.640 bad to the bone when your bones have resurrection power, right, 0:22:45.720 --> 0:22:50.480 that's that double portion resurrection, right, double portion resurrection. Okay, 0:22:50.520 --> 0:22:52.600 Now that's some context because you're gonna really need to 0:22:52.680 --> 0:22:54.720 understand that when we start talking about this. She to 0:22:54.760 --> 0:22:59.920 myite woman's little boy, the shit of my woman says 0:23:00.560 --> 0:23:08.119 everything is fine. Her baby had just died, gone no breath, 0:23:08.840 --> 0:23:15.920 no life, and she's saying everything's fine. This is interesting 0:23:16.520 --> 0:23:18.639 for me, and I want to I want to speak 0:23:19.040 --> 0:23:24.119 on this for the majority of the time because if 0:23:24.119 --> 0:23:27.960 I'm honest with you, the generosity of her hospitality is 0:23:28.000 --> 0:23:32.000 what actually started this miracle. So we're gonna we talked 0:23:32.000 --> 0:23:34.600 about resurrection, but I need you to know what came 0:23:34.640 --> 0:23:38.280 before the resurrection. Okay, I need you to know what 0:23:38.359 --> 0:23:41.040 came before the resurrection. The first thing that happened was 0:23:41.080 --> 0:23:44.720 with their mouth Verse eight. A leading lady of the 0:23:44.760 --> 0:23:56.080 town talked him into stopping for a meal. She's sending 0:23:56.200 --> 0:23:58.000 text to election like, Yo, I love for you to 0:23:58.040 --> 0:23:59.879 come over. Come on, I love you to eat. Let's go, 0:24:00.520 --> 0:24:05.520 let's rock this. Oftentimes we won't even ask anyone of 0:24:05.600 --> 0:24:09.600 anything because it's easier to say no for them. And 0:24:09.640 --> 0:24:12.400 we gotta be careful about this, Like we're like, nah, 0:24:12.440 --> 0:24:15.440 they got too much going on. They don't care that 0:24:15.520 --> 0:24:18.280 much about me. I they would never go to that church, 0:24:19.560 --> 0:24:22.560 like I you know what, I'm good, I'm fine, They're fine. 0:24:22.760 --> 0:24:26.240 We're all fine, like right, Like, we gotta stop fabricating 0:24:26.320 --> 0:24:30.880 responses in our mind before we start asking with our mouths. 0:24:32.520 --> 0:24:35.640 This is something that I watch people do all the time. Well, yeah, 0:24:35.680 --> 0:24:38.600 I'm not gonna even I'm not even gonna try. I'm 0:24:38.600 --> 0:24:40.480 not even gonna But you want to know how she 0:24:40.560 --> 0:24:45.280 got her miracle. It started with their mouth. It started 0:24:45.280 --> 0:24:46.919 with their mouth. And so you got to like, she 0:24:47.040 --> 0:24:49.120 coming to dinner, and you know she was a good 0:24:49.160 --> 0:24:53.880 cook because it said he kept coming back. She ain't. 0:24:54.000 --> 0:24:59.920 He ain't coming back for tato talk Kessero, real deal. 0:25:00.200 --> 0:25:01.600 So I don't know if this is the fifth time, 0:25:01.680 --> 0:25:04.880 the sixth time, I don't know. But you watch her 0:25:04.960 --> 0:25:10.000